asciilifeform: it definitely had the pre-usgization keccak gold standard. can generate tests from this.

asciilifeform: gotta find a copy somehow ( asciilifeform doesnt appear to have )

asciilifeform: old site had'em

asciilifeform: pc is epic piece of shit, with modern vlsi it could have 50 working uarts for a few cents. instead ships with 0 ☟︎

asciilifeform: not only the driver thing, but even the plastic shells come apart when handled one too many times; the sockets come off the wires; etc

asciilifeform: without exception

asciilifeform: ALL ttl snakes i currently know of, are stereotypicachinese rubbish

asciilifeform: must've happened long ago -- all of my gentoo boxen work with the ttl snakes

asciilifeform: diana_coman: this is unfortunately quite typical.

asciilifeform bbl

asciilifeform: np

asciilifeform: ( leave 'tx' alone . )

asciilifeform: cruciform: the colours on your cable may not match exactly the traditional one; in that case look up which wire is rx, which - +5v, which - ground.

asciilifeform: it's a pl2303 , ought to work ( though see diana_coman 's recent thread , on certain egregiously braindamaged linuxen there is a bug ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: cruciform: pretty sure i shipped a number of units with that exact cable

asciilifeform: cruciform: at least 1 person here knows the answer to this, you might want to check back later.

asciilifeform: ( which may be a trivial fix or an hour-long headache depending on what's on yer box )

asciilifeform: if you make the cuts in the wrong order, could easily end up without a compiler.

asciilifeform: might want to ask mod6 , ben_vulpes , trinque , shinohai

asciilifeform: i cannot immediately say how to do this surgery on non-gentoo linuxen

asciilifeform: see also esp. thread http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-03#1665148 . ☝︎

asciilifeform: gcc5 was made by wreckers.

asciilifeform: ^ see also.

asciilifeform: !#s gcc5

asciilifeform: ( unless yer a gentoo virtuoso and can have 9000 compilers safely co-exist. otherwise, kill. it. with. fire. )

asciilifeform: and i mean, all of it. no gcc5 on the box anywhere.

asciilifeform: get rid of it

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: have fun

asciilifeform: only now plugged it in ?!

asciilifeform: oh you're the uk fella

asciilifeform: cruciform: problems ?

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/TDImw << copy, for l0gz

asciilifeform: to be fair, some of the screaming ugliness is on account of the tangle of arithmetic chips they were stuck using.

asciilifeform: and nearly unreadable to modern eyes

asciilifeform: in other olds, http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/genera/distribution/sys/sys2/bignum.lisp << ( and yes it is on the cd ) >> quite sad bignum stack imho

asciilifeform: in very other vintage lulz, http://www.cpu-ns32k.net

asciilifeform: aside from the 'validation chamber' or what was it, in hanbot's gulag story

asciilifeform: i still dun fully grasp what this obummerism specifically means

asciilifeform: 'your livedexperience has failed checksum and does not validate. please try again'

asciilifeform: validate their lived experience << lel

asciilifeform: 'hey let's all use centrally-controlled faux wot, what could be the down side'

asciilifeform: 'Verification was meant to authenticate identity & voice but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance," Twitter said in a tweet announcing its decision to pause the verification program. "We recognize that we have created this confusion and need to resolve it. We have paused all general verifications while we work and will report back soon.'

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: waiwat

asciilifeform: did i sleep through a tragic fire where twatter et al mysteriously burned down ?

asciilifeform: when the blessedly anointed accuse. when evil terrorist -- not worth mention

asciilifeform: and a newyorktimes.

asciilifeform: it isn't about 'accusations', you or i could accuse all day long and they will print 0 ☟︎

asciilifeform: so you publish dirt on 3 muppets, 4th, on whom you were not able to find any, wins. where's the win from this from your pov ?

asciilifeform: not sure i see the parallel

asciilifeform: near as i can tell, 'which senator' matters approx the same amount as 'which wrestler'

asciilifeform: box, nominally, ~does~ something

asciilifeform: i can't say that i do

asciilifeform: do you , personally care , ben_vulpes , which muppet 'withdraws' and is replaced by which other muppet ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: again who would be dumb enough to blow btc on this ? and who dumb enough to believe in the promise of btc for this

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is this the dead hdd bird ? or other

asciilifeform: or rnc or whatever fiatolade people

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-09#1735695 << how dumb would somebody have to be to send $goodies to dnc and expect btc back ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: !#s boar mate

asciilifeform: ( i suspect a europistani root there, but nfi from whom specifically it came )

asciilifeform: ( to wank )

asciilifeform: from дрочить

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: as in the kind where 'the imago must not gain carnality' etc

asciilifeform: neh but see задрот is specifically 'terminal masturbator'

asciilifeform: it isn't exactly 'wanker'

asciilifeform: btw i realized today that 'задрот' does not properly translate to eng

asciilifeform: the one kept in spare tyre compartment ? or where

asciilifeform: lol, 'hey we like the same type of pie, yes you can borrow my chix' ?!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how did it go? 'can i borrow this' ?

asciilifeform: from same rag, 'The man accused of tackling Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and breaking his ribs as he was mowing his lawn pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a misdemeanor assault charge, a court official said.'

asciilifeform: reads more like pcp doper than 'terrorist'

asciilifeform: mercehonda

asciilifeform: lol plasticar

asciilifeform: ok worx ty

asciilifeform: ( at any rate it dun load )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ad in question seems to have vanished ?

asciilifeform: pretty sure i saw a similar 'genius' in timis

asciilifeform: lol orc engineering

asciilifeform: that's pretty good

asciilifeform: ( recall article )

asciilifeform: this is indeed tru, not so long ago i recapped an... opteron

asciilifeform: hence the q. how often can it be expected to melt down. and how recoverable after meltdown.

asciilifeform: depends how it barfs. on some misfortunate boxes cap failure leads to nukeage of ics.

asciilifeform: iirc

asciilifeform: they did. still remains the issue of electrolytic caps tho

asciilifeform: hey phf what do you suppose is the mtbf of a present-day bolix 'xl' ?

asciilifeform: ain't that the whole 'female' strategy in compact algo ? 'guaranteed catch of bag of tiny fishes, in return for 0 chance of whale'

asciilifeform: hey ben_vulpes you ever made it to that museum ?

asciilifeform: i dun expect to find ns src for the cpu, but could theoretically find pinout or even data re pcb , which is almost as good

asciilifeform: phf: he has a bunch of tape images, i've none, at some point i'ma comb'em

asciilifeform: hm?

asciilifeform: aa neato

asciilifeform: even some rom images, loox like.

asciilifeform: http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/3630/ http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/3640/ << moar bolixisms.

asciilifeform: (offline, for nao, until isp day)

asciilifeform: shinohai: i'm mirroring whole thing

asciilifeform: console had equiv. of workstation cpu at the time ~just for sound~ etc

asciilifeform: it was pretty lulzy 'money is no object' baroque arch